This is my model for how our businesses change over time. (If you want to know more about why it’s spiral instead of linear, read this.)
For each stage in the spiral I’ve created and gathered some resources to help you meet the specific challenges of that stage. Some of these are affiliate links, but all of them are for resources I personally have gone through and recommend.
The stages are:
- The Foundations Stage
- The Planning Stage
- The Implement/Experiment/Implement/Experiment Stage
- The ARGH!!! Stage
- The Foundations Stage (again)
And there’s also one theme that runs through every stage: Taking Care of You Business
The Foundations Stage
You have no fucking idea what your business is about. Except it’s about this. No wait, it’s about this! Attempting to describe it involves plenty of arm flailing and a I’m-drowning-here look on your face. Everything is on the tip of your tongue, and every statement ends with a question mark.
What this stage is marked by
- Frustration
- High levels of uncertainty
- Continual change as you refine your ideas
- Indecisiveness
- Alternating waves of manic joy and crippling despair
Challenges to manage
- Not settling too soon
- Dancing with uncertainty
- Bringing your ideas into cohesion
- How to edit instead of mutilate
- Not driving everyone you love insane
Opportunities to exploit
- Anything is possible!
- No, seriously, anything!
- Integrating ideas in new and amazing ways
- Creating the thing you want to exist
- Stepping up into beautiful authority
- Madly experimenting
Resources to help you out
This was the exclusive focus of this business for some time, so you better bet I have resources to help you here.
Goddamn Radiant
Have you ever walked past a building site one morning to see a huge pile of twisted rubble, and then next morning seen all the rubble vanished, with the foundations solid and marvellous in less time than seems humanly possible?
Goddamn Radiant is like that.
By the end you will be shaken, exhilarated, and alight with possibilities as you stare at the beautiful foundations of your new business. No debris, no dangerous pits, no confusion – just one solid platform to start building on.
Cash and Joy Foundations
DIY Magnificence
If you like to create new
If you have any appropriately rockintacular suggestions to add to this list, I’m happy to hear about them! Email me and let’s talk.
